Educational and amusement device



J. DoNNlANNl ET AL EDUCATIONAL AND AMUSEMENT DEVICE Oct. 9 1923.

Filed 'March 1, 1922 E Fl Q H I Patented Get. 9, i923.

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Be it known that we, Jarras DONNIANI and Josnrrr DoNNrANNI, citizens ot' the United States, andA residents of VDanbury,in the ycounty ofFaii-ield and State 'of Connecticut, have .invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Educational and' Amuse-,-

vment Devices, of which the following is a specification. l f

`Our invention relates to an educational 'and amusement device of a" kind -to be used The Y purpose vide -a device which? can rbegused" for the amusement andenlightenment o'fboth chil'- dren and growny people and whereby anfend- -less ser-ies of questions and answers maybe used, and compiled to cover different elds` oit interest, and Vespecially to employV letters of the alphabet in thecode, and questions f covering popular -s'ubJects of the'V day, to-Y get'her with their answers; further tohcon structV the .device infasimple and practical way so that it maybe put out as an inexpensive and attractive commercial proposition, and :tor which additional records and-reference code sheets may be required froml time to time. f

With these and other objects in view theV Similar characters ofreference denote likev or corresponding parts throughout.r the several iguresrof the accompanying drawings Vforming a part of this specification, and

upon which, v Y

Fig. 1 shows a perspective View ot our device as supported within a casing, the

' cover of which is removed;

Fig. 2 isa central vertical longitudinal.,

i dial.

'riiary 22" lReferring l illustratesa code question sheet such as'is readvin connection with the answers to be indicated by the operationr or the devicefl Thedevice `briefly includesA a dial that is divided into a' series voi" sections, each con*` taining specific information in condensed.

form which in substance is an answer to one 1 ofl the questions printedfupon the sheet to 65 be read in connection with-that.particular The question'sheetalso includes alsee ries o-letters which correspond with 4a siinilar, seriesrof lettersprinted upon the ma' chine and'tobe indicated byoa manually op-. 70,V

erated arm' that is connected' through rotatable gear mechanism' toopera-tei a 'rpivoted 'pointer' that swings around to-register the several sectionsoi thel dial. The scheme ol the' play is' to select questions on' the ,code` 75 sheetwhich'is designated by one oi' the'letters, as for instance "A;, meaning Vilhatis thef date ofY Viashingtons birthday i and then adjust the arm to register with the A in the series ot letters, whereupon the 80 pointer'willswing around to thefsectionof the dial including the answer-namely Feb anism and other parts ofthe apparatus, 6`in- -V dicates a horizontal partition supported on the side walls of the casingand provided with a hole 7 to Vaccommodatethe pointer 8 90' vand the pivotal end 9 of aV post 19 secured to thebase.- A'glass covering plate 10 `is supported above the partition 6 and in spacedy relationthereto-so as toy provide a protective ,covering for theppointer and an enclosure for the top of the device.I A nontransparent disk Y11 is secured to the under, side otthis glass l0k immediately'above the pointer and its pivotal post so as to cover all except the eXtreme end of the pointer 10 are cut out-to form a centralf hole which registers with, but is somewhat llarger than the non-transparent disk 11 before men#v tioned, the edges of the dialtting-against the recta'ngularjframe of the box 5, so that the information-containing sections of thef dialV about the opening are correctly posi'- tioned. i

in detail to the characters ofv reference markedupon the drawings,v 5 rep- 85 resents'a bor: orjcasing including the mech- The partition 6 is provided withY an arcl shaped slot 13V throughwhioh the handled end portion of the arm 111 extends for the,

.manual operation of the device and for the support of the lfinger 15 Vwhich registers with the several code letters in the circular series.-

c The operating arm 14k is secured to a gear 16 mounted upon a shaft 17 supported in the hub on the Vbase, and in the partition 6 before mentioned, so that with the swinging of the arrn, the said gear is rocked backward and forward upon` its shaft in a Way to simi- V .larly rock the co-acting` gear 18Y with` which it meshes. rl`he gear 16 and'arm lturn I' in about 90o, so thatthe gears 16 and` 18 have a ratio of substantially 1 to 4:. This last named gear is rotatably mounted jupon the post19which is `supported in the hub '20 on ,the base, the upper end of `.which forms the pintle 9 for the pointer before re-Y ferredtq c. ,y 1

A magnetized;metalicross arm 21 is secured tothe upper sidev ofthe gear 18.in aA f way to move with said gear and thus serves to attract land rotate the pointer Srwhich is also magiietized and thus Aturns upon its pivot by vmagnetic attraction with the cross 1 arm below. The effect of this operating con- A iiectioii as between thetwo parts is to afford a flexible operative connection for the needle, so as to insure a preliminary swinging orwobbling movement of the pointer'preparatory to its final positioning, thus lendf ing momentary uncertainty as to )ust where the needle is going to stop. .t

From the foregoing it will beV seen that in order to .operate the device it wouldfirst be necessary to select a dial and chart adapted to be read in connection with each other,

thenv place the dial ontheglass plate., and n next position the arm to indicate the particular letter corresponding vto that uponv the code sheet and with which the questions vto be answered align. Thereupon the pointer immediately swings around to the answer to the question selected, lwhereupon other questions may be Worked out in the saine way.v Y U u Y -YK Having thus described our invention, What we claim and desireto-secure byLetters Pate entis: n

In adeviceof the class described, the combination with ya dial. having an annulariseriesyof sections, each containing certain printed information, a magnetized pointer mounted centrally of the dialfand pivoted Y to sii/ing around and indicate one of theiseveral sections of ythe dial, and operating meansrfor the pointer, comprising a rotatable cross arni coaxially' mounted with relation tol the niagnetized pointerya gear coaxial and rotatable with said cross. arm, a Y

second gear meshing therewith,r a radial ainfifV I Signed at Danbury, in the county Fair.-

iield and State of yConnecticut this .24th day of February, A. D. Y1922. f

y Jai/ins ,DoNNiANNr Y Y. j JOSEPHEI'DONNNNI.

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Cines. W. MURPHY,

THOMAS A. COLLINS., 

